Durov has a point, france, and the rest of the west for that matter, is on a crusade to lock down the internet, and protecting children is the trojan horse for it. They seek to identify every account and every ip to id and likeness and feed it through ai threat detection ran by peter thiel’s palantir and their ilk to in effect create secret social scores on us.

In doing so they will be surrendering their own citizens to tech giants, for a cut of the information. Instead of protecting us from tech, and by extension the US government, taking all information on everything, they are colluding with it to make us all vulnerable.

X is a dogshit company and this raid is a good thing perhaps in that regard, but the western countries are acting in bad faith to those aforementioned ends even as we celebrate a nazi’s company getting some government scrutiny for it’s perversions after enjoying impunity.